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A Dark Moment In Time - 830 words
A Dark Moment in Time The book, The Crucible by
Arthur Miller, is a well-written drama of how
scapegoating gone to the extreme can bring about
tremendous contention and chaos even among the
simplest of people. In this case, the victims of
scapegoating were the citizens of Salem,
Massachusetts. I feel that Miller did an excellent
job on the way in which he conveyed the setting,
characters, and plot. The story takes place in
Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. In their society
there is only black and white, right and wrong.
Given that the era is the 1600's we know that
their lives weren't very complex back then. The
people back then mainly farmed and worked from sun
up till sun down. Therefore we kn ...
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A Lesson From Oliver - 5,155 words
A Lesson From Oliver by David Jorgensen Like any
other morning I was up at four, the day Oliver met
with his violent death. At four in the morning the
grass is wet. Now, it's still wet at 6 a.m. and
even at seven, and these tend to be the hours of
choice for most people wishing to appreciate the
phenomenon of grass wetness. But it's a tragedy of
economics that, when work starts at 5 a.m., one is
not afforded the same time-options for grass
appreciation as members of the sane world. Nor was
this tragedy confined to my having to appreciate
the wet grass while in a metabolic state more
suited to hibernation. Four a.m. was my only
chance to absorb all of northern Ontario's summer
morning treasur ...
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Abortion Paper - 1,933 words
Abortion Paper The coexistence of opposite and
conflicting feelings about abortion is centuries
old. Disagreements between public policy, morality
and individual behavior on this issue existed even
at the time of Plato and Aristotle. In the past
few decades abortion issue has been brought into
sharper focus and has been vigorously debated. A
number of factors are responsible for this but
perhaps the major one has been that associated
with the sexual revolution which accentuates
freedom in all matters sexual and in spite of or
even because of the tremendous and indiscriminate
increase in the distribution of contraceptives.
Judges have ruled, politicians have legislated,
but the controversy on ...
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Absurdity And The Stranger - 615 words
Absurdity And The Stranger Absurdity is defined as
that which is contrary to reason; clearly untrue,
unreasonable or ridiculous. It is often a topic in
existentialist writings relating to life. This
subject is prevalent in Camus The Stranger and The
Myth of Sisyphus. Camus depicts absurdity bringing
about happiness or indifference in each of these
literary works. In The Myth of Sisyphus, it is
made clear that Sisyphus is aware that his
existence is absurd. He is sentenced to an
eternity of rolling a boulder up a steep mountain
only to let it roll back down when it reaches its
peak. His tragedy lies in the fact that he is
conscious of the extent of his own misery. He is
the ultimate absurd; t ...
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Against Capital Punishment - 1,191 words
... uggests that rather than deterring homicide,
state executions may actually increase the murder
rate. This phenomenon has been named the
brutalization hypothesis. It suggests that through
suggestion, modeling, or by legitimizing killing,
homicide numbers increase. In a study taken from
1957 to 1982 by Isaac Ehrlich, the number of
executions in 1957 was 65 and the number of
murders was 8,060. From 1958 to1960 the execution
rate stayed roughly the same, but the murder rate
increased (Bender& Leone, 1986, p. 99-100) (Vila &
Morris, 1997, p.223). Throughout the remainder of
the study the execution rate dropped and the
murder rate continued to increase. In 1981 the
murder rate was at 22,520 a ...
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Aids In Detail - 2,050 words
AIDS In Detail Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
(AIDS). Today, despite the continuing production
of better antibiotics since the discovery of
penicillin, we are facing an infectious disease
against which all these drugs are virtually
powerless. This disease is spreading inexorably,
killing more people and more people each year.
AIDS does not know no national boundaries and does
not discriminate by race or sex. It is rampaging
not only throughout the United States, but also
through Africa, India, China, Russia, Europe,
South America, and the Caribbean countries. Even
infants and children are at risk. AIDS is similar
to the bubonic plague or the "BLACK DEATH" that
killed perhaps one-third in ...
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Alcatraz Island And Prison - 1,993 words
Alcatraz Island And Prison Alcatraz Island has
quite a distinct history. Many people know that
Alcatraz served as a federal prison, but most are
reluctant to know that this island served as fort.
Built before the Civil War, it served two main
purposes. First, that it was to guard the San
Francisco bay area from enemy ships against a
foreign invasion, and second, to hold hostage
prisoners of war or POW's as they were called. In
this report, I'll show you how this fortress came
to be a federal prison, why it is no longer in
operation today, and most importantly, to show why
it was built in the first place. When the great
Gold Rush of 1849 first started, California grew
from what would be consi ...
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Alcatraz Island And Prison - 2,035 words
... rcumvented the San Francisco citizens who were
concerned at the prospect of vicious criminals in
the near vicinity, the Bureau of Prisons set about
selecting a warden who could do the job. A
well-organized, no-nonsense businessman and prison
administrator with twelve years of experience in
the California Department of Corrections, James A.
Johnston was to be that man. Johnston had retired
at the time of his appointment by the Department
of Justice, and its acceptance resulted in his
serving as warden of Alcatraz for the next
fourteen years. Classified as a concentration
model, where difficult-to-manage prisoners from
other institutions would be concentrated under one
roof, Alcatraz serve ...
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Antigone - 1,052 words
Antigone After filling up your gas-guzzling SUV,
you walk into the convenience store to pay for the
gas and buy a soda. Reaching for the Diet Coke,
your eye catches on something as a man walks past
you. It is a shine, or a shimmer. Just the light
bouncing off the keys, you think. You grab the
soda and shut the door that is now fogged up due
to the warm air. As you turn around, chaos breaks
through the quiet, and everybody is leaping for
the ground. Quite puzzled, you just stand there,
looking at everybody, wondering what the hell is
going on. And then you see it. The man that walked
by you has a gun in his hands and is waving it
around like a baton. Fortunately, he hasnt seen
you standing du ...
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Antigone And Creon - 1,144 words
Antigone And Creon Issue of male authority and
challenges to that authority in the play
"Antigone". In the play "Antigone" by Sophocles,
Creon and Antigone have distinct conflicting
values. Antigone first demonstrates feminist logic
when she chooses to challenge a powerful male
establishment. This establishment is personified
by her uncle Creon, who is newly crowned as the
King of Thebes. Creon poses to be a major
authority figure in a patriarchal society. Creon's
regard for the laws of the city causes him to
abandon all other beliefs. He feels that all
should obey the laws set forth by him, even if
other beliefs, moral or religious, state
otherwise. Antigone, on the other hand, holds the
be ...
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Antigone And Power - 1,613 words
Antigone And Power "Power corrupts, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely," said Lord Acton
generations ago. In the Greek tragedy Antigone,
written by Sophocles, there was a character named
Kreon, the antagonist, who was the king of Thebes.
Thebes was an autocratic state where Kreon had
absolute power. Throughout the course of the play,
Kreon abused his privilege of absolute power; and
this caused him to suffer greatly, even though he
was warned by a few people of his bad deeds. What
Sophocles commented on absolute power was that one
should not abuse it. If it was abused, he or she
had to expect bad consequences. This was indicated
by what happened to Kreon when he abused his
power. Kreon s ...
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Antigone By Sophocles - 1,163 words
Antigone By Sophocles Name: Nilima R. Patel
Student Number: 9714937 T.A.: Nanette Morton
Professor: Anne Milne. Date: 26th July, 2000.
Issue of male authority and challenges to that
authority in the play Antigone. In the play
Antigone by Sophocles, Creon and Antigone have
distinct conflicting values. Antigone first
demonstrates feminist logic when she chooses to
challenge a powerful male establishment. This
establishment is personified by her uncle Creon,
who is newly crowned as the King of Thebes. Creon
poses to be a major authority figure in a
patriarchal society. Creon's regard for the laws
of the city causes him to abandon all other
beliefs. He feels that all should obey the laws
set for ...
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Aristotle - 445 words
Aristotle Aristotle was one of the most
influential thinkers in western culture, and a
Greek philosopher, teacher, and scientist. He was
probably the most scholarly and learned of the
ancient Greek Philosophers. Aristotle mastered the
entire development of Greek though before him and
employed this knowledge in his writings. He
criticized, summarized, and furthered the
development of the Greek philosophies. Aristotle,
along with his teacher Plato, are the two most
important Greek Philosophers. Aristotle was born
in Satagira, a small town in Greece. Aristotles
father worked as a personal physician for the
grandfather of Alexander The Great. Both of
Aristotles parents died when he was a boy, he ...
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Caligula: The Madness Of A Goat - 1,117 words
Caligula: The Madness of a Goat Many studies have
been made on the emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus
Germanicus, or "Caligula." He was professed to be
the maddest, and cruelest of all Roman emperors.
As emperor, Caligula put the imperial treasury in
severe debt, performed acts of insanity, and
committed scandalous sexual acts. The ludicrous
deeds he participated in, and carried out left the
Roman Empire in infamy. During the reign of
Tiberius, the captain of his bodyguards Sejanus
began a campaign of extreme and devious means. He
desired the Roman throne and so, started to
eliminate his competition. The first to go was
Drusus, Tiberiuss heir. Sejanus then took out
other key contenders for the th ...
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Capital Puinishment - 1,606 words
Capital Puinishment Capital Punishment is an
Unlawful and Ineffective Deterrent to Murder The
United States is one of the few countries left in
the world to practice the savage and immoral
punishment of death. Retentionists argue that the
consequence of death prevents people from
committing the crime of murder. It is proven that
the death penalty does not deter persons from
committing murder, nor does it serve as an example
of the consequences of capital crimes to society.
Furthermore, it is impossible to guarantee that
the criminal justice system will not discriminate
against or execute the innocent. Above all, the
methods of execution are horrifying and barbaric,
as well as the devaluing o ...
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Capital Puinishment - 1,670 words
... fers. The methods of capital punishment in use
in 1997 included hanging, firing squad,
electrocution, suffocation in the lethal gas
chamber, and lethal injection (NCADP). The
traditional execution by hanging is still used in
a few states today. Death on the gallows can make
for a slow and agonizing demise by strangulation
if the drop is too short. Or, if the drop is too
long, the head will be torn off. Two states still
use the firing squad method, in which the
condemned is hooded, strapped into a chair, and a
target is pinned on the chest. Five marksmen take
aim and fire (NCADP). During the twentieth
century, electrocution has been the most widely
applied form of execution in the United ...
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Capital Punishment - 713 words
Capital Punishment Capital Punishment Capital
punishment is punishment by death for committing a
crime. Since the early 1800's, most executions
have resulted from convictions for murder. The
death penalty has also been imposed for other
serious crimes such as armed robbery, kidnapping,
rape and treason. People disagree about whether
capital punishment is moral or is effective in
discouraging crime. Questions that are most often
argued when discussing capital punishment fall
into three categories: Does capital punishment
save money? Does capital punishment strike fear
into offenders, saving innocent lives by deterring
would-be killers? What does capital punishment
mean to an innocent person w ...
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Capital Punishment - 1,271 words
Capital Punishment Martin Ferretti 3/5/00 Capital
Punishment Capital punishment was established in
this country many years ago to punish those
members of society which have committed horrendous
crimes against fellow citizens and in a way to
give the family of the victims a sense of peace.
Various forms of capital and corporal punishment
exist around the world and in most cases are very
closely related to the religion of the nation. I
believe that capital punishment is an atrocious
institution and should only be used in those very
few cases where rehabilitation is not an option
because it does not help the criminal become a
member of society. It should be used only for
those who kill just for ...
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Capital Punishment - 1,067 words
Capital Punishment ?The?Capital punishment is the
infliction of the death penalty on persons
convicted of a crime.? This has been a topic of
debate for many years. People who are for: People
who are against: ?Why do we kill people to prove
killing people is wrong?? Unconstitutional The 1st
argument I have against capital punishment is that
it?s unconstitutional. Every person has an equal
right to ?life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.? This is a quote from American Civil
Liberty Union National Office, ?Capital punishment
is a barbaric remnant of an uncivilized society.
It is immoral in principle, and unfair and
discriminatory in practice.? Does the government
have the right to kill? M ...
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